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  Rapidly, I released from my soul dozens of spheres of brilliant, colorful divinities. As they rotated around my body, Credit Points began to fill them, helping them transform, turning them into big, colorful trees made of ethereal and colorful essence, as if they were made of light.

  FLUOSH!

  Ding!

  [You have exged 280.000.000 Credit Points and a Large Quantity of Mana!]

  [The {Broken Divinities}: {Destru}, {Eternal Winter}, {Lord of the Mountains}, {Life-Eating Emerald Fmes}, {A on of Destru}, {Undead Authority}, {Chaotic Mae}, {Cursed Forests}, {Treasure Seeker}, {Mother of all Parasites}, {Mad Puppet}, {Endless ival}, {Sea Dragons}, and {Seat of Gold} have transformed into their {Divinity Tree} forms!]

  [Several of them are in their Imperfect Divinity Tree Forms due to damage, and a Perfe ot be achieved. To repair these errors or wounds within the branches and roots, please fuse them with simir trees.]

  “It’s done.”

  The 14 trees floated around me, eae with their own distinct appearance, color, and aura, and they were much more beautiful than Broken Divinities, which resembled spheres full of broken gss shards.

  “Now… Absorb!”

  My Divinity Aura surged from my body as a gigantic tree, easily surpassing the rest in size and robustness, made of golden light and abyssal darkness, emerged.

  Its branches and roots pierced all fourteen Divinity Trees, abs them into its body and stantly making it ge colors.

  Slowly, it turned into a beautiful, rainbow-colored, and crystalliree.

  FLAAASH!

  The tree branches spread upwards, ging colors from green, blue, red, brown, gold, and so on, and the braurned bck, white, purple, pink, red, green, and more.

  The colors stantly ged as my tree tinued growing until it finally settled down, its size having more than tripled, emerging from my Divinity Aura as a tremendous thing.

  I felt the power of my Divinity of Yin and Yang, whipasses the two spectrums of all things, quickly developed and expanded.

  The amazing thing about this Divinity was the power it had to absorb any Divinity, any Divinity always fit either Yin and Yang; after all, they all beloo these two primordial elements of creation aru.

  I felt my prehension of the Daos quickly increase, with Yin and Yang resonating within me. I saw visions, prehensions, enlightes, and memories of these gods that their divinity trees carried.

  Their Stories.

  I saw the things they did and how they got where they were. Some grew up as greedy gods of the mountains, born from a mountain that gained divinity. Another was an envious divi, an ihat ehe inal god of is and usurped their throer freezing them into a divine frozen coffin, turning her world into aernal winter.

  A devil born with the ability to jure green fmes, sidered a cursed power, his parents were killed when he was only one year of age, and he grew bitter and hateful, destroying and killing not only his persecutors but tless is until he became a god by force.

  A lonely puppet was left behind inside a world that was a gigantior, a near-endless building with a dimension of its own with millions of rooms. This lonely puppet slowly learned how to move without strings a on an adveo eat any specter, ghost, and people it found, growing into a god after thousands of years, all because it wao bee a living being.

  A man who worked in a ival as a saw his world and his life crumble apart as the ival closed due to a ck of sales. Bming those that mahe ival, he sughtered and huhem dower another, and after growing to like killing, he became a serial killer. Eventually, through a pact with a demon whom he offered the souls and bodies of those he killed, mostly children, he gained his own world, aernal ival world where he reigned as its god.

  A desote, a mae structed by an old race of aliens, left behind in a world without a purpose other tharu, finding out its masters were now go went on a rampage, eliminating the entire civilization of the p found itself on, and then being its default god. A lonely mae whose only purpose was to destroy.

  A king who found so his treasures and the gold he accumuted over many years abandoned his family and everything for his treasures, forever obsessed with his riches after he saw his entire family being robbed and sughtered at a young age. Eventually, he cursed his own soul and became oh his treasures, killing aroying his entire kingdom and being the world’s only god.

  A parasitic alien y from outer space that parasitized several wild worlds across the os, rapidly growing and expanding, fusing their minds and souls, until ultimately arriving in a world full of magic, which they devoured, creating their queen, a bination of their hive minds into a siity, a goddess.

  A world destroyed by a zombie apocalypse, where no human was left alive, and where even living beings turned into undying zombies of all shapes and sizes. Eventually, when no humans were left, disputes between zombies emerged as they created fas and sughtered one another. Eventually, the stro of them all emerged: a young zombie woman with the power to trol, bine, and absorb other zombies, their goddess and princess.

  And many more...

  These were their stories, their tragedies, and their insanity. Some of them had sadder moments in their lives, but they were all irremediable evil in the end.

  Maybe some could have bee better if only they were given another ce, but the things they did were too terrible to be fiven anymore.

  And so, their story ended when they fronted me as they died.

  Though in every one of their Stories, the Barbarian God appeared, asking them for their help. Some of them didn’t even know him, yet they helped him.

  There was something he said, though, that vinced everyone when he asked for their assistance.

  “Remember those who helped you bee what you are now, Gods,” he said. “You could have never been able to do it without them, my creator, and your masters. Now, as you promised, you will repay their help.”

  So those that made the Barbarian God had something to do with the asdance of these other thirteen gods, huh? I guess it makes sense; some of them became gods in very strange ways.

  Although some others had risen as gods naturally, some were truly strange, like the . Who was that demon that gave him a world? Or that puppet—who was his true maker? Even the emerald fme devil's asdance shouldn’t have been possible by merely sughtering; he received help to properly refine a divinity out of sughter.

  There’s someone, a stant force, a group of people, or perhaps a gigantic anization that spans several worlds, perhaps universes, that is stantly w towards the creation of evil gods and their usage in draining worlds out of their energies and powers.

  They’re harvesting worlds at a much better pace than most of the ods of the tower, and they iivize the growth of new evil gods all the time too.

  Hmm, whatever the case, I’ll have time to think about that ter.

  Now…

  Ding!

  [gratutions! Your [Divinity Tree]: [Yin and Yang Harmony Tree (Tier 1: Rank 1)] has successfully absorbed the {Divinity Trees}: {Destru}, {Eternal Winter}, {Lord of the Mountains}, {Life-Eating Emerald Fmes}, {A on of Destru}, {Undead Authority}, {Chaotic Mae}, {Cursed Forests}, {Treasure Seeker}, {Mother of all Parasites}, {Mad Puppet}, {Endless ival}, {Sea Dragons}, and {Seat of Gold}!]

  [Your [Divinity Tree]: [Yin and Yang Harmony Tree (Tier 1: Rank 1)] has Ranked Up and Evolved into the [Divinity Tree]: [Harmonious Spiritual Yin and Yang Tree of Diviier 3: Rank 7)]!]

  [Your Divinity Stat has increased +2.700.000!]

  [All your other Stats have increased by +5.400.000!]

  [You have unlocked two new [Divinity Branches] and [Divinity Roots]!]

  [By using Faith, you make them grow and develop into Divine Abilities and Divihorities!}

  [The new Divine Abilities and Divihorities will be based on the bination of all previously absorbed Divinity Trees plus your own.]

  [You have now gaihe ability to “Reroll” Divine Abilities and Divihorities of something you don’t like using Faith and Credits, but it only be done while you have yet to choose it! Once chosen, such powers ot be rerolled.]

  [Your Divinity has beuch more powerful! You ow access the Divieiques io your Divinity: [Divinity Aura], [Divine Domain], and [Divinity Maion] by spending Mana and other Energies, alongside Faith.]

  “Oh, now this is iing! I Reroll stuff?” I wondered. “Hmm, not bad! I feel quite stronger now, only quite, but that’s siderable for someone like me… Also there’s Divinity Aura, Divinity Domain, and Divinity Maion, huh? Is this big tree in my Aura already part of all of that?”

  Remembering my battle against the Gods, they all used special Divine Domains to try to snatch me and trap me into a sure death teique, though they never worked.

  But still, I think I kind of uand how that goes.

  “I’ll try it just for the fun of it,” I smiled. "Alright, Typho’s spar!”

  “RAAARR?!” Typhon seemed to panic a bit.

  I pointed my hands at him and then instinctively released all of this power.

  Like they did, they activated the sequence of intation bined with their own imagination and divinity, right?

  The base of everything is imagination.

  How I embody everything into reality through my powers.

  I have unleashed other domain-like teiques before, but nothing like what the gods used against me.

  Their Domains were much more personal, much more… born from their “Stories”.

  And my Story… what it create?

  Remember those memories.

  The pain, the hardships, the agony.

  All the people I lost, all the people I killed.

  Of all my regrets and the times I felt happy.

  And of the endless foes I had to fight.

  The powerful beings, the Progenitor of all Humans, the Venerables.

  It was hard, so damn hard…

  But I mao get back here, right?

  Yeah, I feel it.

  I kly what my Divine Domain is.

  I looked in front of the gigantic metallic, crystalli, Typhon, who was readying himself to receive my attack.

  My eyes seemed to glow with rainbow fmes, and my entire body was enpassed by its divinity aura.

  And then, a shockwave of energy was released from my body, dist space… and time.

  “{Divine Domain}: {Primordial Path of Assion}”

  FLASH!

  Everything ged in the blink of an eye.

  I sensed how my Faith was being spent with every passing sed.

  But that didn’t matter.

  What I saw, though, was incredible.

  Murim itself materialized around us: the mountain peaks, the colorful skies, the forests, the temples, and the sects.

  “This is my life…”

  “Graaaahhh!”

  Typhon roared, rushing towards me.

  FLASH!

  Yet spad time were distorted, and suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of a poor vilge.

  There, Typhon found himself smaller than before.

  He was starving and groaning in pain.

  Crawling across a path made of mud and dirt.

  “G-Graagh? Graaah!”

  He couldn’t uand what had happened; Divine Domains had truly reality-bending abilities.

  “WOOF!”

  And then, a pack of golden-horned lightning wolves appeared, chasing him.

  Yes, I remember this se.

  This was when I was just thrown into this hellish world.

  When I was starving, fused, tired, and looking everywhere, I was uo prehend what was happening.

  All of those pains I went through were transferred to my "foe", little Typhon.

  This even made it, so he temporarily became much weaker.

  And above all, the damn wolves started chasing him.

  He decided to fight against them, thinking they were nothing but little pups.

  A terrible choice.

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  CRASH!

  “Gryyaagh!”

  Typhon groaned angrily; his cws broke as he fought the wolves.

  These measly wolves were among the weakest Martial Beasts of Murim.

  They could have killed me aen me if I hadn’t run faster than them.

  I rolled down the hill and nded on a ritation, where the farmers saved my life.

  “Over here, Typhon!”

  “Raaarrr!”

  He followed me as he rolled down the hill and was then saved by the farmers who threw sto the wolves, which quickly ran away afterwards.

  “So that’s how it works, so amusing!”

  It was as if my Divine Domain put someohrough a trial based on my own memories and hardships.

  There were solutions to them that could only be achieved by doily what I did.

  But would every enemy be able to figure it out so easily?

  Not really…

  “Okay, that’s enough for now.”

  The Divine Domain came undone, as Typhon was back to normal, but all the damage he took ihe Domain was reflected on his body.

  “I’ll heal you. Sorry for that! I’ll use it on enemies only from now on.”

  I patted his head after healing him, giving him a few snacks.

  “Now, let’s go back. I’ve had enough for today. Let’s rex and have fun. Tomorrow, I’ll return home for a few days. There are some things I o take care of.”

  After returning with everyone else, the festivities tinued for a while, but my girls were already too tired of them, so we moved to a personal tent to have some aloime before departing tomorrow.

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  Pach